124: Chapter 124 (Backup) Li Sixing is back! I want to be the store manager!

Chapter 124 (Backup): The Returning Li Sixing! I Want to be a Store Manager!

Because they were well-prepared, the promotion turned out quite well.

The event not only made the local newspapers but also appeared on the television news program.

Jiuxiang Hotpot Restaurant got some good exposure this time.

Spark Media took the opportunity to share this news across many platform accounts, mentioning Jiuxiang Hotpot Restaurant along the way, calling it a very famous hotpot restaurant in Rongcheng.

Jiuxiang Hotpot Restaurant's name gradually began to appear in many travel guides for Rongcheng.

Besides this, Jiuxiang Food was naturally not forgotten.

Jiuxiang beef snacks also gradually began to be mentioned alongside famous beef brands in the Baishu region.

On websites like Baidu Zhidao or Bihu, whenever a question involved Baishu beef specialties—like Dengying Beef, Zhangfei Beef, Old Baishu Beef, or Jiuxiang Beef—it was a classic case of passing off the new as the established.

In other beef snack recommendations and rankings, the shadow of Jiuxiang beef snacks gradually began to appear.

Don't ask; if you do, it's just the answer of a loyal Jiuxiang beef snack customer. It has nothing to do with Spark Media!

On Spark Media's side, Jiang Yan's income skyrocketed.

This included livestreaming income, advertisement promotions, and even game promotions!

However, Spark Media placed great importance on Jiang Yan and didn't give her too many advertisements, avoiding burning through the popularity she had worked so hard to gain!

With the company's assistance and arrangements, while Jiang Yan was livestreaming and taking on various business tasks,

She was still able to move steadily, maintaining a certain frequency of releasing new works with excellent content.

This allowed her to maintain a good level of popularity!

The company also gave her various courses—not just dance classes, but also various livestreaming conversation techniques.

If a livestream is too boring, it simply can't retain viewers!

Since her male fan base accounted for over 80%, the company required her speech to be more geared toward men!

Commonly known as—pandering to men!

Of course, this made things hard for Jiang Yan.

Her daily schedule was packed to the brim!

Even in her spare time, she was scheduled to watch some anime works,

Or familiarize herself with popular domestic games.

A cosplayer who doesn't watch anime or play games... would be very bizarre!

Although she was busy every day, Jiang Yan deeply cherished this hard-won opportunity.

Even if she occasionally complained or vented to Su Yang, she still took her work seriously.

Su Yang naturally comforted her and helped her release pressure; after all, she was the company's top sister!

While Jiang Yan's popularity was peaking, Jiuxiang beef snacks were also added to her Douyin showcase, and the sales were quite good.

Although the spending power of male fans was slightly lower, there had been signs of it picking up recently!

They didn't love eating snacks as much as girls did, but there was always a portion of them who enjoyed them.

Another point was that men were generally a bit more loyal to brands than women!

So Su Yang treated both male and female customers equally.

Over at Jiuxiang Food, Su Yang also began letting Tan Yanghong recruit new employees to reduce his workload intensity.

Of course, the most important reason was that Su Yang was very close to reaching the one-thousand-employee mark!

It had already been a while since Su Yang achieved the one-hundred-employee milestone.

Spark Media was still hiring at a steady pace, while Spark Fitness couldn't speed up its expansion.

As for Jiuxiang Catering, they didn't need Su Yang to urge them to hire at all!

As Su Yang kept opening new branches, they could only passively and continuously recruit and train new employees.

Near the end of December, Su Yang received a call from Guo Fang saying that Li Sixing had returned to the hotpot restaurant.

Su Yang naturally remembered Li Sixing.

In all his years, she was the first person he had lent one hundred thousand yuan to, and she was also the first employee under him to take the initiative to resign!

Her father's legs had recovered enough that he no longer needed someone to look after him.

Li Sixing returned to the hotpot restaurant with the remaining sixty thousand yuan; she would slowly work to pay back the rest.

Su Yang was naturally very welcoming toward a returning veteran employee.

Taking advantage of the time before the hotpot restaurant officially opened for the day, he even made a rare visit to the restaurant to chat with Li Sixing and see his other veteran employees. The group of old employees seemed very happy to see him!

The female employees even surrounded Su Yang, talking to him enthusiastically.

After all, he hadn't been to the Feida Plaza branch in a long time.

Among these female employees, there was naturally no shortage of those who liked Su Yang.

But none of them would take the initiative to express it, instead burying the feeling deep in their hearts.

Or they simply treated Su Yang like an idol star.

Because they were well aware of the gap between themselves and Su Yang!

As for those girls with a skewed self-perception, they were unlikely to be found serving plates in a hotpot restaurant.

When he left the hotpot restaurant, many employees saw Su Yang to the door.

Employees from other nearby shops looked at Su Yang curiously, wondering what kind of leader he was.

As Su Yang opened his car door and was about to get in and leave, he remembered the envious look in Zhou Zichuan's eyes when he looked at the U8 in the crowd.

He turned back toward the unremarkable Zhou Zichuan in the crowd:

“Zhou Zichuan, do you like this car?”

Zhou Zichuan was stunned, not expecting the boss to speak to him.

However, he still nodded earnestly.

“Do you have a driver's license?”

“I do!”

“Do you want to give it a try?”

“Can I?”

Zhou Zichuan was a bit nervous.

Su Yang nodded seriously: “Of course you can!”

“Go ahead!” Guo Fang laughed and gave Zhou Zichuan a nudge. “If the boss says you can, then you can!”

The other employees couldn't help but laugh as well.

Clearly, they were also aware of Zhou Zichuan's interests!

After letting Zhou Zichuan drive a couple of laps, Su Yang gave him a good deal of encouragement, telling him to work hard and strive to become a store manager first, so he could eventually afford to drive a domestic luxury car of his own.

With Su Yang's encouragement, it was as if he had been injected with chicken blood!

After getting out of the car, while Zhou Zichuan worked, he kept reminiscing about the wonderful feeling of driving the U8!

He liked domestic cars and was also a fan of BBD.

Ever since getting his driver's license, he had been saving money, preparing to buy one!

Suddenly, he stopped what he was doing.

Wait!

Something didn't seem right!

He quickly realized... how could the high-and-mighty big boss know what he liked?

In the hotpot restaurant, he had always thought he was just an ordinary, invisible nobody!

For no reason at all, his nose felt a bit stingy!

“What's wrong?”

Guo Fang saw Zhou Zichuan dazing off distractedly and came over to ask.

Zhou Zichuan looked at Guo Fang and asked softly, “Manager... can I learn from you how to manage a hotpot restaurant?”

The other employees also turned their heads, looking at Zhou Zichuan in surprise.

Guo Fang was quite surprised; he hadn't expected the usually reserved Zhou Zichuan to speak his mind so boldly today!

But thinking back to what had just happened, he smiled.

“You want to be a store manager?”

Zhou Zichuan hesitated for a moment, then summoned his courage and said firmly, “Yes, I want to be a store manager!”

“Good!” Guo Fang patted Zhou Zichuan on the shoulder and said, “Jiuxiang Catering is developing very rapidly right now, and we do indeed need talented managers... If you learn well, I will recommend you!”

“Mhm!”

Zhou Zichuan clenched his fists and nodded earnestly, ignoring the startled looks from the other employees!

He didn't hold much hope of ever driving a U8.

But he hoped that the next time he saw the boss, he would be a store manager!

Because I'm not very familiar with the functions of the Writer's Assistant, a small problem occurred with the title... I also didn't realize that the title couldn't be changed, so I'm a bit helpless. My apologies!